Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (English)
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2025. “Emotions in Meaning-Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis.” Sociological Forum. [Web]
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2025. “Narratives we live by: sequentiality and timeliness in temporal structuring of action.” Theory and Society. Vol. 54. Issue 4. P. 579–608. [PDF]
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2024. “Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: operation and recovery as a ritual-like process.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. Vol. 54. No. 4. P. 448–468. [PDF]
Kislitsyn, Dmitry, Peter Meylakhs, Dmitry Schapov, Dmitry Kurakin and Ekaterina Alexandrova. 2024. “Moral values and vaccination behavior in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Preventive Medicine. P. 1-21. [PDF]
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2020. “Culture and Cognition: The Durkheimian principle of sui generis synthesis vs. cognitive-based models of culture.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Vol. 8. No. 1. P. 63-89. [PDF]
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2019. “The cultural mechanics of mystery: structures of emotional attraction in competing interpretations of the Dyatlov pass tragedy.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Vol. 7. No. 1. P. 101-127. [PDF]
Binder, Werner, and Dmitry Kurakin. 2019. “Biography and Form of Life. Toward a Cultural Analysis of Narrative Interviews.” Sociologia. Vol. 51. No. 6. P. 563-583. [Web]
Yastrebov, Gordey, Yuliya Kosyakova, and Dmitry Kurakin. 2018. “Slipping Past the Test: Heterogeneous Effects of Social Background in the Context of Inconsistent Selection Mechanisms in Higher Education.” Sociology of Education. Vol. 91. No. 3. P. 224-241. [Web]
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2017. “The Sociology of Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia: The Missed Turn.” Cultural Sociology. Vol. 11. No. 4. P. 394-415. [PDF]
Bessudnov, Alexey, Dmitry Kurakin, and Valeriya Malik. 2017. “The Myth about Universal Higher Education: Russia in the International Context.” Educational Studies Moscow. № 3. P. 83-109. [Web]
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2015. “Reassembling the ambiguity of the sacred: A neglected inconsistency in readings of Durkheim.” Journal of Classical Sociology. Vol. 15. No. 4. P. 377-395. [PDF]
Kosyakova, Yuliya, Dmitry Kurakin, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld. 2015. “Horizontal and Vertical Gender Segregation in Russia – Changes upon Labour Market Entry before and after the Collapse of the Soviet Regime.” European Sociological Review. Vol. 31. No. 5. P. 573-590. [Web]
Farkhatdinov, Nail, Nadezhda Evstigneeva, Dmitry Kurakin, and Valeriya Malik. 2015. “Patterns of Managing Secondary Schools under Reforms: Sociological Analysis Experience.” Educational Studies Moscow. № 2. P. 196-219.
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2010. “Literature as a Meaningful Life Laboratory.” Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. Vol. 44. No. 3. P. 227-234. [PDF]
Books and Book Projects
A Sociology of Mystery (with Philip Smith). Book manuscript under revision. University of Chicago Press.
Konstantinovskiy, David, Viktor Vakhshtain, and Dmitry Kurakin. 2013. Reality of Education: Sociological Study from Metaphor to Interpretation. Moscow, Tsentr Socialnogo Prognozirovaniya i Marketinga. In Russian
Konstantinovskiy, David, Viktor Vakhshtain, and Dmitry Kurakin. 2010. The Reality of Education and Research Realities. Moscow, HSE University Press. In Russian
Konstantinovskiy, David, Viktor Vakhshtain, Dmitry Kurakin, and Yana Roshchina. 2006. Accessibility and Quality of General Education in Russia. Moscow, “Logos” Press. In Russian
Book Chapters (Selected)
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2019. “The Sacred, Profane, Pure, Impure, and Social Energization of Culture.” In: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, ed. by. Wayne Brekhus and Gabe Ignatow. NY: Oxford University Press. Ch. 26. P. 485-506.
Kosyakova, Yuliya, Gordey Yastrebov, Diana Yanbarisova, and Dmitry Kurakin. 2016. “The Reproduction of Social Inequality within the Russian Educational System.” In: Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison. Edward Elgar Publishing. Ch. 19. P. 323-342.
Kosyakova, Yuliya, and Dmitry Kurakin. 2015. “Do Institutions Matter? Occupational Gender Segregation at Labor Market Entry in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia.” In: Gender, Education and Employment: An International Comparison of School-to-Work Transitions. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing. Ch. 15. P. 304-324.
Additional chapters are listed in the CV.
Publications in Russian (Selected)
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2024. “Cathectic Mechanisms of Culture. Part 2.” Russian Sociological Review. Vol. 23. Issue 1. P. 9-39. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry and Ilyas Latypov. 2023. “Ecosystems of Choice: On Some Limitations of Rational Choice Theory and a Strategy for Overcoming Them.” Journal of Economic Sociology. Vol. 24. No. 3. P. 11-32. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2023. “Cathectic Mechanisms of Culture. Part 1.” Russian Sociological Review. Vol. 22. Issue 3. P. 9-52. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry and Tamara Kusimova. 2023. Narrative Structures of ‘Escape’: Progressive Narrative and Cultural Structures of Upward Mobility at an Elite Russian University. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. Vol. 15. Issue 3. P. 102-140. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2020. “Tragedy of Inequality: Dehumanizing ‘L’Homme Total’.” Russian Sociological Review. Vol. 20. Issue 3. P. 167-231. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2018. “The Elementary Forms of Religious Life: A Great Book and a Great Mystery.” Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoye Obozreniye. Vol. 17. № 2. P. 115-121. In Russian
Ionin, Leonid, and Dmitry Kurakin. 2018. “Does Patriotism Exist in Sociology?” Sociological Journal/Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal. Vol. 24. № 1. P. 114-131. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2011. “Models of the Body in Contemporary Popular and Expert Discourse: Towards a Cultural Sociological Perspective.” Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoe obozrenie. Vol. 10. № 1-2. P. 56-74. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2011. “Eluding Sacred: Ambiguity of the Sacred and its Importance for the “Strong Program” in Cultural Sociology.” Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoye Obozreniye. № 3. P. 41-70. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2009. “Public opinion survey as an “epistemology engine”: cyberpunk styled sociology.” Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoye obozreniye. Vol. 8. №3. P. 92-102. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2006. “The possibility of corporation: towards a sociological understanding of the university.” Neprikosnovenny Zapas: Debaty o Politike i Kulture. № 47-48. In Russian
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2005. “Symbolic Classifications and the “Iron Cage”: The Two Perspectives in Theoretical Sociology.” Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoye Obozreniye. Vol. 4. №1. P. 63-81. In Russian
Additional peer-reviewed publications are listed in the CV.
Introductions and Translations (Selected)
Durkheim, Emile. 2018. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Translated by Valeria Zemskova, translation edited by Dmitry Kurakin. With an Introduction by Dmitry Kurakin. Elementary Forms Press. In Russian
Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2013. The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. Translated by Grigory Olkhovikov, translation edited by Dmitry Kurakin, with an Introduction by Dmitry Kurakin. Moscow, “Praxis” Press. In Russian
Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2010. “On the Intellectual Origins of “Strong Program”.” Translated by Dmitry Kurakin. Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoe obozrenie. Vol. 9. № 2. P. 5-11. In Russian
Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith. 2010. “Strong Program in Cultural Sociology.” Translated by Svetlana Dzhakupova, translation edited by Dmitry Kurakin. Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoe obozrenie. Vol. 9. № 2. P. 11-30. In Russian
Smith, Philip. 2008. “Narrating the Guillotine: Punishment Technology as Myth and Symbol.” Translated by Irina Tartakovskaya, translation edited by Dmitry Kurakin. Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoye Obozreniye. Vol. 7. № 2. P. 3-23. In Russian
Douglas, Mary. 2007. “Environments at Risk.” Translated by Danara Churumova, translation edited by Dmitry Kurakin. Russian Sociological Review/Sotsiologicheskoye Obozreniye. Vol. 6. № 3. P. 37-48. In Russian
Additional translations and introductions are listed in the CV.
Working Papers / Preprints
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2014. “How Root Metaphors Structure Meaningful Life by Means of Emotions: Theory and Empirical Illustration from the Sphere of Academic Ethics.” Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. CCS Working Paper 2014-08.
Kurakin, Dmitry. 2014. “Russian Longitudinal Panel Study of Educational and Occupational Trajectories: Building Culturally-Sensitive Research Framework.” HSE University. Working Paper WP 01/IE/2014.
Essays and Media
Selections of essays, interviews, and commentaries in Theory (ISA RC16 Newsletter), The New York Times, T-Brand Studio, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
In addition, I have published multiple op-eds, columns, interviews, and commentaries in the Russian national press, podcasts, and web-based intellectual platforms, as well as in HSE University media projects.
I also maintain a Russian-language professional channel devoted to discussions of social theory and cultural sociology [Web].